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Growing skin StrataGraft looks to be the new face of skin grafting Wisconsin State Journal

For Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, watching the painstaking and painful process of applying precious grafts of his own skin to farmer Ted Fink's horribly burned body at UW Hospital in 2000 was an epiphany. It gave the UW-Madison skin researcher a mission: to create a company that would make skin available for grafts on burn victims and others, on demand. Today, Stratatech Corp., Allen-Hoffmann's 7-year-old ...

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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. According to current estimates, 40 to 50 percent of Americans who live to age 65 will have skin cancer at least once. Although anyone can get skin cancer, the risk is greatest for people who have fair skin that freckles easily--often those with red or blond hair and blue or light-colored eyes.